Benefits of Grounding

Dominant lifestyle factors such as insulating footwear, high-rise buildings, and elevated beds separate most humans from direct skin connection with the Earth’s surface.

An earth connection was an everyday reality in past cultures.

Earth provides a limitless source of electricity when we are in contact with it.

Antioxidants are electron donors, and the best electron donor, is right under our feet: the surface of the Earth, with its virtually unlimited storehouse of accessible electrons.

Electrons from the Earth may, in fact, be the best antioxidants, with zero negative secondary effects, because our body evolved to use them over eons of physical contact with the ground.

Our modern lifestyle has taken the body and the immune system by surprise by suddenly depriving it of its primordial electron source.

This planetary separation began accelerating in the early 1950s with the advent of shoes made with insulating soles.

The disconnection from the Earth may be an important, insidious, and overlooked contribution to physiological dysfunction and to the alarming global rise in non-communicable, inflammatory-related chronic diseases.

A lack of electrons can also de-saturate the electron transport chains in mitochondria, leading to chronic fatigue and slowing the cellular migrations and other essential activities of the cells of the immune system.

Multi-disciplinary research has revealed that electrically conductive contact of the human body with the surface of the Earth (grounding or earthing) produces intriguing effects on physiology and health.

Connecting the body to the Earth enables free electrons from the Earth’s surface to spread over and into the body, where they can have antioxidant effects.

Such effects relate to inflammation, immune responses, wound healing, and prevention and treatment of chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases”.

Source-
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4378297/